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What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge, but its quality. You can know many things without knowing that which is most important.

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Our soul's perfection is our life's purpose; any other purpose, keeping death in mind, has no substance.

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Real art can only rarely be created even by a real artist; like a child in a mother's womb, it is the ripened fruit of his prior life. False art, though, can be ceaseless produced by craftsmen, according to the dictates of a market.

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Compassion expressed in response to rage is the same as water for fire. When you are in a rage, try to feel compassion for the other person, and then your rage will disappear.

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Religion and law try to escape from criticism, religion by saying that it is divine and law by showing that it is powerful.

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Let your tongue become accustomed to the words "I do not know."

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The love of great wealth commands you, "Bring me your soul as a sacrifice," and people do so.

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There are many people who claim to be teachers of others who should themselves be taught first of all.

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Do not fear the lack of knowledge, but truly fear unnecessary knowledge which is acquired only to please vanity.

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Those who do not think independently are under the influence of somebody else who thinks for them. If you give your thoughts to somebody else, it is a more shameful slavery than if you give you body to someone to possess.

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Your whole life should be lived as a heroic deed.

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There is a condition in which a person feels himself the architect of his life. It occurs when he concentrates all his efforts and all his intellect on the present moment.

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Your spirit must constantly assert itself because you body is constantly exerting itself.

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It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

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No matter how great our knowledge may be, it cannot help us fulfill our life's major purpose—our moral perfection.

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A king asked a holy man, "Do you remember about me?" The holy man answered, "Yes, I think about you when I forget about God."

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People say that God created mankind after his image. This means that man created God after his image.

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What is important in knowledge is not quantity, but quality. It is important to know what knowledge is significant, what is less so, and what is trivial.

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People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

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All thinking beings have the same basic intellect. Therefore, all wise men share the same idea of perfection.

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Every misconception is a poison: there are no harmless misconceptions.

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I am the tool with which God works. My virtue is to participate in this work, and I can do so if I keep the instrument which is given to me, namely my soul, in immaculate condition.

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Beware of those who want to convince you that it is impossible to strive for good just because it is impossible to reach perfection.

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Who am I? What should I do? What should I believe in? What should I hope for? All of philosophy is in these question, said the philosopher Lichtenberg. But among all these question, the most important one is that which is in the middle. If a person knows what de should do, he will understand everything which he should know.

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One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity.

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